Category: sub judice

‘David Cameron has been rebuked by Mr Justice Saunders for comments made about Andy Coulson whilst the jury in the “phone hacking” case were still in deliberation over two remaining charges. Cameron apologised to the House of Commons in “full and frank” terms for hiring Coulson in 2007, who he said had given false assurances about his involvement in phone hacking.’

“The story of what has happened to Detective Superintendent Fulcher would drive anyone to despair for the sanity of our legal system,” reflected a journalist in the Daily Telegraph in October. Certainly, there have been plenty of calls for reform of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 following the debacle over Christopher Halliwell, who abducted and killed a young clubber, but escaped prosecution for the murder of a second victim, despite having confessed and taken the police to where she was buried.”